StoneFloat

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Laurel Statz


"The Spectator"


December 2025



Laurel Statz is a painter and Madison area native. Her work, while figurative, is influenced by abstraction and minimalism. The paintings often have a quick and instinctual nature, capturing just what’s needed. While she often times herself to eliminate extra details and over-precision, she has ventured into more detailed works as well. Laurel does not attach narrative to her pieces. Rather, she thinks of them like a journaling process for her scatter-brained psyche. The figures in the pieces are meant to be processing tools for the artist and the viewer. She hopes that seeing these figures helps the...
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Saturday, June 3, 2006

Into every vacuum a whorl will whirl and StoneFloat is proud to stake its claim as originators in the emerging new now that is Improvidelic Rock and Roll. Imagine a band that is flexible enough to flow, with all original songs, from spoken word jazz into an acoustic cowboy duets into a reggae rock and finally into a full-on blues tinged rock ensemble. For this special rare appearance at Mother Fool---s, StoneFloat will be presenting two all acoustrick quartet sets. The line-up will feature Tate McLane on guitar and vocals (hailed by Central Wisconsin---s leading music newspaper as having a voice both ---raw and true---), KC McCrum on gitjo and mandolin, Bear LaValley on bass, and Madison Area Music Award Best Artist Finalist Adam Gregory Pergament adding the spoken word. All members of StoneFloat are entirely professional and dedicated to songcraft.

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